Wireless Intersil Prism2.5 doesn't work in Feisty

I have the same problem only with prism2_cs. Perhaps linux-wlan-ng is very broken?

Thanks for your bug report. As Feisty is moving quickly I am curious to know if this is still an issue with the latest kernel in Feisty. Please let us know. Thanks in advance.

I at least still have this problem in Feisty. More specifically if the prism2_cs module is handling the card then wlan0 claims to not support the wireless extensions.

I don't know why linux-wlan-ng is in our kernel but it's completely broken. Or rather it's probably not broken but requires it's own tools to configure it as it always has.

orinoco_cs and hostap_cs both work to some degree. At the moment unless you need WPA orinoco is probably your best bet. If you need WPA hostap is the best but doesn't work with NM (because NM / wpa_supplicant chooses the wrong backend driver, wext, rather than hostap). orinoco works w/ NM but only supports WEP.

If prism2_* must still be included in our kernel the priority for prism-based cards should be orinoco, hostap, prism2.

After updating today my setting was overwritten and I again had to add the blacklist.

Kernel : 2.6.20-9-generic

Thanks

FYI, at least the linux-wlan-ng prism2_usb must be included in the kernel because it is the only driver to support the usb versions.

I have a very similar card to the original requestor (PCI)

00:09.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev
01)
        Subsystem: Actiontec Electronics Inc HWP01170-01 802.11b PCI Wireless Ad
apter
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Step
ping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort
- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
        Region 0: Memory at dffff000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot
+,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

which on a defaults install is controlled by hostap_pci and doesn't work blacklisting prism2_pci and hostap_pci results in a working system.

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